The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

News Notes

  • 8/27/2025
    CS Professor Jiawei Han shared that the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science in The Grainger College of Engineering alumni received prominent awards at KDD 2025.
     
    Carl J. Yang ('20 Ph.D. Computer Science) received the 2025 ACM SIGKDD Rising Star Award based on Yang's body of work in the first five years after the Ph.D.
     
    Yu Zhang  ('19 M.S., '24 Ph.D. Computer Science) received the 2025 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award, Runner-Up.
     
    Jun Wu ('24 Ph.D. Computer Science) received the 2025 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention.
     
  • 9/3/2024

    CS alumnus Yu Meng, mentored by Jiawie Han, received the ACM SIGKDD 2024 Dissertation Award at KDD2024, for his Ph.D. thesis, "Efficient and Effective Learning of Text Representations." Meng is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering & Applied Science.